What are good books for learning how to control and manipulate

>>9658757
Participate in social gatherings while remaining antisocial. Watch and observe people carefully. Your person of average intelligence generally tends to put on air around their insecurities when in social situations. This can be cued by knowing that, again the average, tends to think about, based on the social scenario, their best interest and the person they care second-most about's opinion. It doesn't have to stop at only second, but the idea here is you want to always have an idea about a subject and their object of attraction in a situation, whether you're involved in the situation or not. This object can be any noun of any form. Seeing the strings is the easy part though. It's plucking them without being seen is difficult. You have to either be willingly conniving and tactful with your words and actions (as subliminally as social cues and body language), or, as I've done, become adept at internalizing a goal to the point where you can unconsciously manipulate those around you without really "'trying'". The second works better amount strangers because it'll give you a strange air about you that most anyone couldn't pin point as anything other than a level of 'innocence'. The first works better with those you know because you can guide your actions from familiar to more and more your desired outcome without rising suspicion. But doing the first method often to someone will eventually tip them off as being manipulated. Only the second method acts as a total acceptance of persona.

Read Machiavelli and stop misinterpreting his work

>>9658757
The Prince will only teach you how to write effective satire

The prince was the very first 4chan post in /lit/